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Separatist emissary Akhmed ZakayevÂ’s claims that federal forces were allegedly using radioactive isotope polonium-210 during the anti-terrorist campaign in Chechnya are wrong and unfounded, Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said in Grozny on Thursday, according to the Interfax agency.
“Zakayev is an actor. He can make up any tale. If they have poisoned their associate [Alexander] Litvinenko, they now want to ascribe similar actions to law enforcers in Chechnya,” he said. “Federal forces have never used poison during the anti-terrorist campaign in the Chechen republic,” Kadyrov said.
KadyrovÂ’s remarks came in response to ZakayevÂ’s statement made in a recent interview. The separatist also accused the West of standing by passively as Russia passed laws allowing its agents to hunt down opponents overseas, saying these had led directly to the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, Reuters reports. |